ADMITTANCE, fashion (D.); sanction; admissibility (H.E.D.). ADVANCE, raise to honour.

ADVERTISEMENT, admonition (D.); public notice or announcement (H.E.D.). ADVERTISING, attentive.

ADVISED, act with deliberation; informed.
AFFECTION, affectation.
AFFEER'D, confirmed.

BALDRICK, belt.

"BALK LOGIC," chop logic; balked (?) heaped up (H.E.D.).

BALLOW, cudgel.

BAN-DOG, dog tied or chained up.
BANQUET, dessert.

BARBED, in horse armour.
BASE, prisoner's base, a game.

BASES, "a kind of embroidered mantle, which hung down from the middle, worn by knights on horseback."

BASILISK, Cocatrice, a creature fabled to kill by its look; piece of ordnance. BASTARD, a sweet wine.

BAT, cudgel.

BATE, strife, dispute; v. flutter with the wings.

BATLET, small bat for beating clothes.
BATTEN, fatten.

BAVIN, faggot of brushwood.

BEADSMAN, one hired to pray for another.
BEAR A BRAIN, have remembrance.
Bear-Herd, BEAR-WARD, bear keeper.
BEAR-IN-HAND, hold in expectation, in
false hopes.

BEARING-CLOTH, mantle in which a child was carried to the font.

BEAVER, movable vizor of helmet.
BECK, bow.

BENT, "utmost degree of any passion or mental quality" (J.).

BERGOMASK, a dance imitated from that of
the peasants of Bergamasco.
BESONIAN, needy, base fellow.
BESORT, suite, escort.

BETEEM, allow, suffer.

BIAS, "swelled as the bowl on the biassed side" (J.).

BIGGEN, cap, resembling that worn by the Beguines.

BILBO, Sword, from Bilboa, famous for its steel work.

BILBOES, iron bar and fetters for confining refractory sailors.

BILL, kind of pike, halbert. BIRD-BOLT, blunt-pointed arrow used for killing birds.

BISSON, blind.

BLACK MONDAY, a reference to the Monday after Easter-day 1360, when many men of King Edward III's host, then before Paris, died of cold as they sat on their horses.

BLANK, white in centre of target.
BLOCK, fashion of hat.

BLOOD," in blood," in good condition.
BLOOD-BOLTERED, matted with blood.
BOB, taunt; v. to cheat.

BODGE, "old form of botch" (H.E.D.).
BODKIN, Small dagger.
BOGGLE, Swerve, shy.

BOLINS, bowlines, ropes for governing the sails of a ship.

BOSKY, woody.

BOTTLE, truss (of hay).
BOTTOм, low-lying land.
BRABBLE, quarrel.

BRACE, (?) coat of armour (H.E.D.), state of defence.

BRACH, Scent-hound; bitch.

BRAID, (?) deceitful (H. E.D.); v. upbraid.

BRAKES ("brakes of vice"), thickets; "engines of torture" (D.).

BRAVE, defy; adorn, make fine.

BRAVERY, finery; bravado.
BRAWL, lively dance.

BRAWN, arm.

CAREER, space within the lists; racecourse; "short turning of a nimble horse," frisk, gambol (H.E.D., "he careires").

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CARKANET, necklace.

CARL, CARLOT, churl, boor.
CASTLE, close helmet.

CATAIAN, Chinese (Cataia, Cathay, old name for China).

CATER-COUSIN, cousin of "quatre," fourth degree.

CATES, table delicacies.
CATLING, lute, violin-string.
CAUTEL, craftiness, caution.
CENSURE, opinion, judgment.

CEREMENTS, waxed cloths for enwrapping embalmed bodies.

CESS, measure, "out of all cess." CHACES, "a chace at tennis is that spot where a ball falls, beyond which the adversary must strike his ball to gain a point or chace" (Douce). CHAMBER, piece of ordnance; "Camera Regis," old name of London. CHAMBERLAIN, one in charge of chambers. CHANNEL, kennel.

CHAPE, metal mounting of scabbard, "particularly that which covers the point," possibly the scabbard itself (H.E.D.). CHARACT, distinctive mark, character. CHARACTER, handwriting.

CHARNECO, wine, probably Portuguese.
CHAUDRON, entrails.

CHEATER, escheator.

CHECK, turn from pursuing one prey to follow another (falconry).

CHERRY-PIT, game in which cherry-stones
were thrown into a small hole.
CHEVERIL, leather made of kid-skin.
CHEWET, chough, jackdaw.
CHILDING, fruitful.

CHOPINE, a high clog worn by Venetian ladies, etc.

CINQUE-PACE, a dance, the steps of which were regulated by the number five. CITTERN, musical instrument, similar to guitar.

CLACK-DISH, or CLAP-DISH, carried about by beggars, who clacked the cover to attract attention.

CLAW, flatter.
CLEPE, call.

CLIFF, clef, key in music.
CLING, shrivel.

CLINQUANT, glittering.
CLIP, embrace.

CLOUD IN'S FACE, signifying that the horse has a dark-coloured spot between the eyes.

CLOUT, "the mark shot at " (H.E.D.), nail or pin in centre of white of target (D.). CLOUTED, hobnailed "clouted brogues." CLOY, claw.

COAST, approach; assail, accost. COASTING, "coasting welcome," an amor. ous approach (Nares); some eds., “accosting welcome."

COBLOAF, Small round-shaped loaf.
COCKATRICE. See Basilisk.

COCKLED, within a shell.

COCKREL, a young cock.

CROSS-ROW, alphabet.

CROW-KEEPER, scarecrow.
CRUSADO, Portuguese coin.
CRY, pack.

CUCKOO-BUD, buttercup, cowslip, marsh marigold; "orchis, or cuckoo-pint in bud" (H.E.D.).

CUCKOO-FLOWER, name given to various flowers in bloom when cuckoo is heard: lady's smock, ragged robin, etc. (H.E.D.). CUISSES, armour for the thighs. CULLION, low fellow, lout. CUNNING, skill, knowledge; skilful. CURB, cringe, crouch.

CURIOUS, CURIOSITY, Scrupulous; precision. CURST, ill-tempered, shrewish, vicious. CURTAIL, CURTAL-DOG, originally a dog with its tail cut to show that his master was unqualified for hunting; later, a dog not meant, or not good, for sport.

DURANCE, "robe, suits, of durance," durable (quibble with other meaning of word).

EAGER, sharp, keen; sour.

EANING, when young are brought forth. EANLING, new-born lamb.

EAR, till.

ECHE, eke out.

ECSTACY, madness.

EFT, (?) ready, convenient (H. E.D.).
EGMA, enigma.

EISEL (eysell), vinegar.

ELF, mat; elf-locks hair matted by the elves.

EMBALLING, Carrying the ball at a coronation (D.),"investing with the ball as an emblem of royalty." EMBARQUEMENT, embargo.

EMBOSS, drive a hunted animal to extremity (H.E.D.).

EMBOSSED, swollen; foaming at the mouth.

EMBRASURE, embrace.

EMULATE, emulous, envious.

ENGROSS, fatten; bring together from all quarters.

ENGROSSMENT, accumulation.

ENSEAM, grease.

ENTERTAIN, take into, or retain in,

FAY, faith,

FEAR, frighten.

FEAT, trim, neat, elegant, dexterous.
FEATURE, person in general, form.
FEDARY (fedarary), confederate.

FEE-FARM, grant of lands for all time..
FELL, skin, hide; a. savage.
FELLOWLY, Sympathetic.
FERE, companion, mate.

FERN-SEED, thought to have power of ten
dering persons invisible.
FESTINATE, speedy.

FETCH trick, artifice.
FETTLE, make ready.

FIGHTS, cloths put up to screen men in
action during a sea-fight.
FILE, list; v. defile.
FILL-HORSE, shaft horse.
FILLS, shafts.

FINELESS, endless.

FIRE-DRAKE, fiery dragon, meteor, fire.
work (D.).
FIRK, thrash.

FIT, division in a song.
FITCHEW, pole-cat.

FIVES, disease in horses.

FLAP-DRAGON, small combustible body floated alight in liquor; to be drunk. down, or caught up by the mouth and swallowed.